Re: [ccp4bb] Methods for dehydrating crystals

2011-08-29 Thread Matthew BOWLER
Dear Andrea, as others have suggested there are many ways to dehydrate crystals by increasing the concentration of salt/precipitant or adding glycerol/EG/PEG 200-400 to the solutions surrounding your crystals. I have always found controlled dehydration using a specific device to be much

[ccp4bb] Self-rotation Patterson maps

2011-08-29 Thread john peter
Hello, I wish to learn about self-rotation Patterson maps such as how to interpret a map and find out non-crystallographic symmetry. Could you suggest some good papers (for dummies), web-sites etc. Thanks a lot for your help. John

Re: [ccp4bb] HTP ligand screening

2011-08-29 Thread Alexander . Schiffer
Dear Jacob, Globalphasing has a new programm called Pipedream that should do just what you want. I am not sure if it is available to non consortium members. Best regards, Alexander -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Jacob Keller

Re: [ccp4bb] Windows 7 and Xtal Software

2011-08-29 Thread Nat Echols
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Jacob Keller j-kell...@fsm.northwestern.edu wrote: are there any additional problems or known issues running ccp4 or other xtal software on windows 7 (beyond those of Vista, etc.?) Phenix, ARP/wARP, and HKL2000 do not run on Windows. I'm pretty sure none of

Re: [ccp4bb] phaser problem

2011-08-29 Thread Randy Read
Hi Amir, When this error was reported before, it turned out that the sequence file used to define the composition had the one-letter code Z (presumably for Se-Met), which Phaser-2.1.4 doesn't recognise. I'm not sure what the newer versions in CCP4 and Phenix would do with this, but at the

Re: [ccp4bb] Windows 7 and Xtal Software

2011-08-29 Thread Ian Tickle
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Nat Echols nathaniel.ech...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Jacob Keller j-kell...@fsm.northwestern.edu wrote: are there any additional problems or known issues running ccp4 or other xtal software on windows 7 (beyond those of Vista, etc.?)

Re: [ccp4bb] Self-rotation Patterson maps

2011-08-29 Thread Ian Tickle
Hi John, There's some by now fairly ancient tutorial material on the SRF (though of course the theory hasn't changed) here: http://www.ccp4.ac.uk/dist/ccp4i/help/modules/appendices/mr-bathtutorial/mrbath2.html#section2.8 (and the following section 2.9) and here:

Re: [ccp4bb] Windows 7 and Xtal Software

2011-08-29 Thread Roger Rowlett
The CCP4 suite runs very well in a virtual machine (e.g. VirtualBox) in Windows. You can share folders between VBox and Windows so you can run graphically intensive apps like Coot and Pymol natively under Windows but still use data from your Linux VM. Roger Rowlett On Aug 28, 2011 10:24 PM, Jacob

[ccp4bb] Multiple sequence alignment (vs) multiple structure alignment

2011-08-29 Thread Suda Ravindran
Hello, I am looking at insertions/deletions occurring at various places in my protein and also I want to map the active site residues. I have performed Multiple sequence alignment as well as multiple structure based alignment for my protein of study. I have obtained different alignment patterns

Re: [ccp4bb] Protein elution in Size Exclusion

2011-08-29 Thread R. M. Garavito
Nian, Before you dump the column, clean it and run some protein standards on it. If everything looks OK, run a small sample of your protein again. If it behaves the same way, then you may have a protein with hydrophobic patches. Anomalous binding to and elution from polymeric SEC

Re: [ccp4bb] Windows 7 and Xtal Software

2011-08-29 Thread George M. Sheldrick
The current SHELX binaries (including the beta-test multi-CPU SHELXD) all appear to run fine under Windows 7. There is no need to use a virtual box etc. George On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:53:05PM -0700, Nat Echols wrote: On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Jacob Keller j-kell...@fsm.northwestern.edu

Re: [ccp4bb] Windows 7 and Xtal Software

2011-08-29 Thread George M. Sheldrick
It is simply a result of the 'zero dependency' philosophy. In other words, the exact opposite of current trends in crystallographic computing (e.g. Phenix/CCTBX). George On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:39:16PM -0500, Jacob Keller wrote: You know, why does your software always seem so clean? Was it

Re: [ccp4bb] How to handle b-factors at low resolution and very incomplete model?

2011-08-29 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 11:15 Tue 23 Aug , Engin Özkan wrote: I distinctly remember reading a paper where B factors were predicted based on the location of the atoms (core vs exposed, main chain vs side chain) and the predicted values were not that far off. Here's one along those lines: Flexibility and

Re: [ccp4bb] Windows 7 and Xtal Software

2011-08-29 Thread Paul Smith
Okay then, Here's the plan for all the software developers out there: 1) backport cctbx to fortran (preferably F77) and include all subroutines inline to avoid the use of any external libraries whatsoever 2) ditch all gui support or, from scratch, develop a gui front-end that uses none of the

Re: [ccp4bb] Windows 7 and Xtal Software

2011-08-29 Thread William Kennedy
the question, then, is how fast is your FFT on a slide rule? Dexter Kennedy, MD Thumbed from my iPhone On Aug 29, 2011, at 4:01 PM, Paul Smith p...@paladinscientific.com wrote: Okay then, Here's the plan for all the software developers out there: 1) backport cctbx to fortran (preferably

[ccp4bb] HTP ligand screening

2011-08-29 Thread John Badger
Pipelined data to map calculations can be run with the 'bng' script in MIExpert, a companion package to the MIFit software. These are open source packages at http://code.google.com/p/mifit The bng script can either be run on the command-line or through the MIFit GUI. Both GUI and processing

Re: [ccp4bb] Self-rotation Patterson maps

2011-08-29 Thread Manish Chandra Pathak
Hello John, In my struggle with self-rotation function, I found this extremely useful to start with. Specially the fig 4 on page 107. Characterizing a Crystal From an Initial Native Dataset by Michael R. Sawaya http://www.springerlink.com/content/k024q83484477j42/ The peaks in the log